The Best and Worst Songs of the Summer

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3.3 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Features Editors Ryan Dombal and Jill Mapes break down the most replayable, effervescent, and annoying songs that are vying for our attention this season alongside Senior Writer Alphonse Pierre.

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0:00.0	This is the Pitchfork Review.
0:08.0	I am Features Editor Ryan Domble, and guess what?
0:13.0	It's that time of year again.
0:15.0	It's the time where you can't walk a city block without starting to sweat profusely, as I did this morning.
0:23.8	When the AC in the movie theater is so good that, yes, you will see the new Transformers movie
0:31.4	just to get out of the heat out.
0:35.0	Did you see the Transformers movie?
0:37.3	I think I'm going to skip that one.
0:40.2	So, yes, with the summer comes songs of the summer. This is the music that perfectly fits those
0:48.7	sweltering days and or nights. And to run down all of our favorites and some of our not so favorite songs of the summer of
0:58.1	2023, I've got a couple sharpshooters in the building, senior writer Alphonse Pierre,
1:07.7	and features editor Jill Mabes.
1:10.1	Hey guys.
1:10.9	How's it going?
1:11.8	I like sharpshooter.
1:12.7	Yeah.
1:13.1	Yeah.
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:14.7	No, I mean, it's accurate.
1:17.3	So before we dive into the specific songs that we're listening to, that we're hearing,
1:22.8	I'm just wanted to go over the concept of a song of the Summer. Like, what does this mean to you guys?
1:30.6	What is this just shameless marketing? Is this just kind of a ploy by Billboard magazine?
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